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By admin_coffin| 2018-02-08T19:56:11+00:00 February 8th, 2018|Categories: Spirituality|Comments Off on Cameraderie Is Not Looking For You

"Patrick Coffin’s contribution to the Church’s engagement with the media is as excellent as it is urgently needed. He is both passionate about communicating the Faith and fluent in the vernacular of our culture."

"Patrick Coffin is like no one I’ve ever met. He’s an extraordinary radio host, a common sense intellectual, a filmmaker, and an a everyday comedian. Patrick is a rare gem and a gift to the Church."

– Patrick LencioniCEO The Table Group Best-selling author of The Advantage and Death By Meeting

"The new evangelization means, first of all, knowing your audience and finding a way to connect with them. This makes Patrick Coffin a new evangelist in spades. He presents the Catholic Faith in a way that mixes ancient wisdom with modern wit."

"Patrick Coffin is a robustly engaging, funny and delightful radio host and speaker. He knows all things Catholic and it is always a joy and honor for me to appear on the air with him. Highly recommended."

+ Bishop James ConleyDiocese of Lincoln, NB

"Patrick Coffin is one of the best interviewers and most knowledgeable persons I know when speaking about the Catholic faith or almost anything. Not only is he good at what he does—and he does so much—but he is good at who he is, a true disciple of Jesus and loyal son of the Church."

"We have no one like Patrick Coffin in Britain: I wish we had. His calm, reassuring tone of voice, and pertinent, intelligent questions, are such a pleasant contrast to the impatient, aggressive interviews on the secular media."

– Piers Paul ReadMember, Royal Society of Literature Award-winning author of Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors. Official biographer of Sir Alec Guinness

"There are few real stand-outs in the media. Patrick is one of them. He knows that he’s not competing with other Christian broadcasters but with the very best in the secular sphere out there. He’s professional, funny, and sharp."

"Patrick Coffin is part of a growing and increasingly successful effort to engage with religious matters in a manner that is evidently relevant to the modern world, unmoored from its foundations as it has become."

– Dr Jordan PetersonProfessor of Psychology University of Toronto

"Patrick Coffin is a communicator. His love of his faith, his sense of truth and his agile mind enable him to take the Catholic faith into the marketplace of ideas in a most engaging way."